Competitiveness
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But the effect was similar: an unsustainable pattern of income and employment generation, and lower productivity and
competitiveness
in these economies’ tradable sectors, leading to trade deficits, stunted GDP, and weak job creation.
The US and others can take advantage of it as well, but only if productivity relative to income levels in specific areas of potential
competitiveness
begin to rise.
Trump knows that fulfilling his promise to revive US manufacturing with domestic policy changes that boost American companies’ international
competitiveness
would be difficult to implement and take a long time to pay off.
With a stronger dollar undermining US manufacturing’s international competitiveness, it would be even more difficult, at least in the short run.
This would lower the cost of labor, restoring
competitiveness
(as in Asia after 1997-98) while also inflating asset prices and thereby helping borrowers who are underwater on their mortgages and other debts.
When the bubble bursts, the afflicted country can restore
competitiveness
only through a painful process of real depreciation.
It suggests a framework for reducing emissions that respects the development needs of China’s households, addresses US firms’
competitiveness
concerns, and adheres to the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” embedded in international negotiations.
One justification for capital controls is to prevent inflows of hot money from boosting the value of the home currency excessively, thereby undermining
competitiveness.
But profitability should not be an end in itself; it is a tool to help managers determine the most effective use of their resources and gauge the company’s
competitiveness
and vitality.
Crisis-torn peripheral European economies still suffer from unsustainable debt loads and serious productivity and
competitiveness
problems.
The euro is not overvalued or poorly managed, which would undermine
competitiveness
and erode confidence in the currency’s long-term stability.
Swedes broadly view technology as essential to foster competitiveness, fuel productivity growth, and thus expand surpluses that will be distributed among workers, management, and owners according to shared values, or used to help adapt worker skills.
Of the world’s four largest economies, only the US suffers persistently weak
competitiveness.
These capital flows created a boom – and a loss of long-term
competitiveness
– in some regions, which was followed by an all-too-predictable bust.
Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market
competitiveness
and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.
It also assumes that addressing structural constraints on
competitiveness
can be deferred – perhaps permanently.
America needs to expand its share in external global demand, which requires public-sector investment, structural change, and improved
competitiveness
in the tradable sector.
Meanwhile, Europe struggles to find a solution to its deficit and debt problems by treating them with short-term liquidity fixes whose purpose is to buy time for fiscal consolidation and, in the absence of the exchange-rate mechanism, some kind of deflationary process to restore external
competitiveness.
Raising the retirement age to 67, abolishing wage indexation, and compelling countries to enshrine a debt brake in their national constitutions are reasonable measures to enhance
competitiveness
and restore confidence in the euro.
Major eurozone economies like Spain and Italy have huge debt problems of their own, especially given anemic growth and a manifest lack of
competitiveness.
The Fund needs to create programs for Portugal, Ireland, and Greece that restore
competitiveness
and trim debt, and that offer them realistic hope of a return to economic growth.
Third, European resources are fragmented, and this hampers European
competitiveness.
Developments that are fundamental to European competitiveness, like an EU-wide patent, have proved impossible to achieve.
This is a handicap for different countries and makes it more difficult for them to regain
competitiveness.
In a recent interview, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici likened the measures being undertaken to reduce the country’s debt burden and restore
competitiveness
to a “Copernican revolution...because these choices were not clear for a French government or for a center-left government.”
But it is increasingly apparent that this approach has undermined public finances and
competitiveness
– and that households end up picking up the tab.
Americans’ pragmatism, opportunism, fair-mindedness, inventiveness, adaptability, optimism, and, above all, their inherent
competitiveness
offset their tendencies toward violence, impatience, self-righteousness, and unpredictability, their fondness for novelty and celebrity for their own sake, and their self-assertion en masse – getting there, as they like to say, “fastest with the mostest.”
Given that eurozone countries have lost the capacity to devalue their currency in order to regain competitiveness, any country that cannot compete must rely on assistance from wealthier states.
This, on its own, is already posing a challenge to the
competitiveness
of some domestic industries.
However, new debt is nothing but a form of dope, reducing pressure to take painful measures that would improve
competitiveness
and capacity growth.
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